Today's Top Windows System Articles for 2026-08-30

On Call: Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

PaperCut Releases Emergency Patch for Exploited Zero-Day

A CVE identifier has not yet been assigned, but PaperCut is urging NG/MF users to install patches and implement mitigations. The post PaperCut Releases Emergency Patch for Exploited Zero-Day appeared ...

SecurityWeek

Aug 28, 2026 - securityweek.com

Over 8,300 Gitea servers vulnerable to code execution attacks

Over 8,300 Internet-exposed Gitea instances are still unpatched against a critical security flaw exploited in ongoing remote code execution attacks, according to cybersecurity watchdog Shadowserver. [...

BleepingComputer

Aug 28, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

How can we better manage social media addiction and the arising mental health issues?

Latest article by David Stephen who looks at social media addiction and mental health challenges arising.  There is a recent analysis on Johns Hopkins Medicine, Social Media and Mental Health Among Ch...

Irish Tech News

Aug 28, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up?

AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, putting pressure on systems built to enrich, prioritize, and remediate flaws at a slower pace. Action1 explains why defenders increasingly need to correlate...

BleepingComputer

Aug 28, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

I turned to AI when my doctor couldn’t fix my back pain. It actually helped

A few months ago, I injured my back, resulting in debilitating nighttime pain. To make matters worse, the pain meds my doctor prescribed weren’t working, and I hadn’t gotten a good night’s rest for we...

Fast Company - technology

Aug 28, 2026 - fastcompany.com

Ring Rolls Out "Throw Away the Key" Encryption That Deletes Its Keys After 24 Hours

Ring is introducing a new encryption system known as TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default setting for all its users, the company stating that it Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...

gHacks

Aug 28, 2026 - ghacks.net

In-The-Box Thinking is the New Framework for Leadership, Box Clever

Guest post by Rachel Johnson, who is CEO of PiXL (Partners in Excellence) and author of Box Clever, shortlisted for Business Book of the Year 2026. I have a confession to make. I am obsessed with quad...

Irish Tech News

Aug 28, 2026 - irishtechnews.ie

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

Ars Technica - All content

Aug 28, 2026 - arstechnica.com

Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns

Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

Ars Technica - All content

Aug 28, 2026 - arstechnica.com

Growing Dependence on External Platforms Fuels Interest in Sovereign AI

As enterprises rush to deploy AI, a majority of them are discovering that relying entirely on external platforms can create new risks. Concerns about data residency, regulatory compliance, vendor lock...

Petri IT Knowledgebase

Aug 28, 2026 - petri.com

Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount

And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting

Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

Apple TV acquires breakout British hit comedy for global streaming

Apple TV has picked up a new comedy series, Small Prophets, for its streaming service in an atypical fashion for the streamer. Rather than commission the project upfront, Apple has bought out the worl...

9to5Mac

Aug 28, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systems

CISA has added the exploited flaw, CVE-2026-53362, to its KEV catalog, alongside a JFrog vulnerability exploited by OpenAI agents. The post OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own S...

SecurityWeek

Aug 28, 2026 - securityweek.com

Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution

100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

ATF Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware Group Claims Attack

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has described it as a ‘major incident’ and it’s conducting an investigation with the DOJ. The post ATF Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware ...

SecurityWeek

Aug 28, 2026 - securityweek.com

7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and more this weekend (August 28)

The final week of August 2026 is light on must-see new movies and TV shows to watch at home.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 28, 2026 - techradar.com

GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands

A maximum-severity vulnerability in the GiveWP plugin for WordPress allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the hosting server. [...]

BleepingComputer

Aug 28, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have

Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

Seattle startup Arkero expands English soccer reach, landing historic club as latest AI customer

The agreement builds on momentum for Arkero, which was launched last fall by the co-founder of Seattle digital remittance company Remitly and raised $6 million at the start of this year. Read More

GeekWire

Aug 28, 2026 - geekwire.com

Gurus are joining the chatbot trend as people turn to AI for spiritual guidance

When Kripa Vaidyanathan’s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such...

Fast Company - technology

Aug 28, 2026 - fastcompany.com

PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws

PaperCut has released a second emergency security update for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in its PaperCut NG and MF print management software after researchers discovered multiple ways to by...

BleepingComputer

Aug 28, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

US government alcohol and firearms agency ATF declares ‘major incident’ after ransomware gang claims cyberattack

Hackers break into a standalone system with information on targets of ATF investigations.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 28, 2026 - techradar.com

Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it

Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Manchester Airports Group cyberattack, Carhartt breach data was partly fake, U.S. Bank responds to ransomware gang’s claims. The post In Oth...

SecurityWeek

Aug 28, 2026 - securityweek.com

Azure Machine Learning AutoML for FinTech Startups: From Idea to Production

FintTech Startups needs agility and speed FinTech startups operate in an environment where speed matters. They need to move quickly from an idea to a production-ready financial product, often with sma...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Aug 28, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

Ars Technica - All content

Aug 28, 2026 - arstechnica.com

This Week in AI: The Guardrails Are Getting Tested

In the latest episode of This Week in AI, host Vicki Reyzelman, a solutions engineer with Akamai, said the systems keeping AI secure, powered, and physically functional are getting stress-tested faste...

Radar

Aug 28, 2026 - oreilly.com

Millions of VPN users in the US are inadvertently putting their privacy at risk, Proton warns

Think a VPN keeps you completely anonymous? A sweeping new study by Proton reveals that 85% of VPN apps in the US contain hidden trackers, exposing millions of users to the exact privacy risks they’re...

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 28, 2026 - techradar.com

Microsoft Edge 152 automatically blocks scam notification traps

Microsoft Edge 152 can now automatically unsubscribe users from push notifications sent by websites that Microsoft Defender SmartScreen blocks as scams, phishing pages, or malware. The Stable release ...

4sysops

Aug 28, 2026 - 4sysops.com

Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag

Consider an AI agent tasked with a complex enterprise workflow like migrating massive batches of customer records from a legacy CRM to a cloud database. The agent cannot rely solely on its internal co...

VentureBeat

Aug 28, 2026 - venturebeat.com

School Asks Cops To Stop Using Stun Gloves On Its Students

Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICE’s big purchase...

Techdirt

Aug 28, 2026 - techdirt.com

UW AI researcher wins top Marconi award and aims to put ‘superhuman hearing’ in billions of devices

Ph.D. student Malek Itani, who co-founded the AI-powered sound enhancement startup Hearvana, was recognized for developing on-device AI algorithms that enable real-time target speech extraction, "soun...

GeekWire

Aug 28, 2026 - geekwire.com

Beyond Tokens: Rethinking AI Economics with Microsoft Foundry

Beyond Tokens: Rethinking AI Economics with Microsoft Foundry From the cost of intelligence to the value of outcomes   Enterprise AI has an accounting problem. Executives expect agentic AI to return r...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Aug 28, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA’s Insider Threat Division

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

BYOD iPhone can't sign in to Device Management

$1 submitted by /u/arborealsquid

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Aug 28, 2026 - reddit.com

Microsoft Edge update adds Apple sign-in and scam protection, but officially ends Edge Drop and real-time video translation

Microsoft Edge's latest update introduces Apple account sign-ins, automatic scam notification blocking, and new Copilot admin controls. It also officially retires Edge Drop and real-time video transla...

Latest from Windows Central

Aug 28, 2026 - windowscentral.com

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents

Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never bui...

VentureBeat

Aug 28, 2026 - venturebeat.com

Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life With His Simulation Software

While walking to school as a child, Jernej Barbič would marvel at how beautiful his home was. He was born and raised in a picturesque village in northwestern Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia), located in...

IEEE Spectrum

Aug 28, 2026 - spectrum.ieee.org

Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

WIRED

Aug 28, 2026 - wired.com

McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft

Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extorti...

BleepingComputer

Aug 28, 2026 - bleepingcomputer.com

mssql-python 1.14.0: Faster Parameter Binding, Safer Errors, Correct Timeouts

mssql-python 1.14.0 is now available on PyPI. This release moves the standard parameter detection and execution path into native C++, improving throughput for wide parameterized statements and batched...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Aug 28, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

7 of the coolest turntables of 2026 — including a superbly tacky anniversary edition, and an ode to Rammstein

Plus, a "detailed, rhythmically adept" player that was two decades in the making.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 28, 2026 - techradar.com

Federal judge rules for Anthropic in Pentagon dispute, nullifies government supply chain risk designation

The Trump Administration’s decision to punish Anthropic for its stance forbidding Claude’s use in domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons by identifying it as a supply chain risk to national secu...

Computerworld

Aug 28, 2026 - computerworld.com

Russia says it will start selling its 'suicide drone' to foreign nations — but won't name them

Russia is marketing the Garpia-A1E abroad, offering foreign buyers a long-range loitering munition with six-hour endurance and substantial payload capacity.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 28, 2026 - techradar.com

Microsoft dumps its best file-sharing tool for Windows-Android-iOS, called Edge Drop

Microsoft only seems to care about getting Copilot/AI right in the Edge browser, and it's slowly removing everything that made it appealing. The post Microsoft dumps its best file-sharing tool for Win...

Windows Latest

Aug 28, 2026 - windowslatest.com

Advertised gateway prefixes in Azure

Introduction Large Azure hub-and-spoke environments can advertise a significant number of routes toward on-premises networks. By default, Azure VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute Gateway advertise the addre...

New blog articles in Microsoft Community Hub

Aug 28, 2026 - techcommunity.microsoft.com

Creating an audio CD

I want to create an audio CD by writing some MP3 files to a WR disk. When I plug in a fresh disk, Windows wants me to format it. Fine, that works and I can write to the disk. However, the CD is not re...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Aug 28, 2026 - tenforums.com

Windows Defender/Security missing from Apps & Features list

Version: Windows 10 22H2 Build 19045.7663 Issue: Windows Defender has been sending me notifications that it is turned off. Every time I click the notification to turn it back on, and sometimes not ...

Windows 10 Help Forums

Aug 28, 2026 - tenforums.com

AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system?

Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent

There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. All fif...

Techdirt

Aug 28, 2026 - techdirt.com

Microsoft: Hotpatch PCs will force-restart to apply Windows updates for the next two months

Windows hotpatch PCs will need restarts for September and October 2026 updates, temporarily disrupting the restart-free security update experience. Read more...

Neowin

Aug 28, 2026 - neowin.net

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

www.theregister.com - Articles

Aug 28, 2026 - theregister.com

Buc-ee’s Decides The Right Response To Pushback On Its Trademark Bullying Is To Invoke Partisanship

We’ve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-ee’s, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-ee’s seems to think t...

Techdirt

Aug 29, 2026 - techdirt.com

FACTS/RenWeb SSO Support

$1 submitted by /u/MaxBroome

Reddit : K-12 Systems Administrators

Aug 29, 2026 - reddit.com

TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion

Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance. The post TerminalFix...

Microsoft Security Blog

Aug 29, 2026 - microsoft.com

Playing Snake with a Pneumatic Display

[soiboi soft]’s vacuum-driven dot matrix display is part suction gripper, part touchscreen, and altogether impressive. Its display capabilities are entirely shadow-based, with each pixel being made of...

Blog – Hackaday

Aug 29, 2026 - hackaday.com

How did the Manchester Airports Group cyberattack take place, and what data was exposed in the 8.7 million customer records? The experts weigh in

Email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations and postcodes of up to 8.7 million customers were stolen

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 29, 2026 - techradar.com

The Sound of the Silenced: Inside the ten-year global fight to keep the internet on

This year marks 10 years of Access Now's #KeepItOn campaign fighting against internet shutdowns. We talked to the campaign lead about what's been done so far and what the next decade has in store.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 29, 2026 - techradar.com

CVE-2026-68821 Windows Package Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Changes made to the security updates links and information. This is an informational change only.

MSRC Security Update Guide

Aug 29, 2026 - msrc.microsoft.com

LibreOffice 26.8 Launches With Writer Paragraph Composer and No AI Features

The Document Foundation has issued LibreOffice 26. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post LibreOffice 26.8 Launches With Writer Paragraph Composer and No AI Features appeared first on gHacks.

gHacks

Aug 29, 2026 - ghacks.net

Microsoft Edge Update Adds Apple Sign-In and Scam Protection While Retiring Edge Drop and Video Translation

The most recent update to Microsoft Edge includes the option to sign in using an Apple account and also introduces a feature that automatically has users unsubs Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...

gHacks

Aug 29, 2026 - ghacks.net

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, Opening Upgrades for Noble Numbat Users

The Register reports that Canonical has issued Ubuntu 26. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Canonical Releases Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, Opening Upgrades for Noble Numbat Users appeared first on...

gHacks

Aug 29, 2026 - ghacks.net

AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks

Amazon will close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending a 21-year platform that connected businesses with hundreds of thousands of workers.

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 29, 2026 - techradar.com

U.S. Sanctions Against the A/I Collective: When Infrastructure Providers Become Targets

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the digital rights community, the United States government has designated Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian hosting provider, as a "global terrorist" ent...

TechPlanet

Aug 29, 2026 - techplanet.today

System Reboots After Morning Startup

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com

DISM Error Message: The repair content could not be found anywhere.

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Acronis True Image 2016 Build 6595 working on Windows 11 with Memory Integrity/HVCI enabled – tested workaround

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com

What \ Where is this icon at?

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Apple CarPlay gaining a new AI chatbot app before Siri AI arrives

Since iOS 26.4, Apple has supported conversational apps on CarPlay. This category includes AI chatbot apps. Siri AI joins the CarPlay party starting with iOS 27. The iPhone software update is currentl...

9to5Mac

Aug 29, 2026 - 9to5mac.com

“We’re aware,” Microsoft on Windows 11 KB5120998 breaking the mouse cursor

Windows 11's biggest update KB 5120998 is breaking mouse cursors, Microsoft admits the issue, and confirms it's investigating. The post “We’re aware,” Microsoft on Windows 11 KB5120998 breaking the mo...

Windows Latest

Aug 29, 2026 - windowslatest.com

‘They find themselves obsessed, forgoing sleep and self-care’ — what ‘AI psychosis’ looks like, and why experts question the term

More and more people are experiencing delusional thinking fuelled by AI, but how should we talk about it?

Latest from TechRadar

Aug 29, 2026 - techradar.com

forgot password, will this reset password tutorial work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5mzXPlEHc Password got forgotten. Does the tutorial work? Or what do you suggest? Thank you.

Windows 10 Help Forums

Aug 29, 2026 - tenforums.com

Intel Thunderbolt Retimer firmware update cancelled during BIOS update

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com

Can't repair install with dism. The repair content could not be found anywhere

Windows 11 Forum

Aug 29, 2026 - elevenforum.com